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  1. Encounter with Neptune (1990 Video)

    Director
    Fisher Dilke
    Subject
    Space science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 48 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows images sent by the NASA ‘Voyager 2’ spacecraft, which reached the planet Neptune in 1989 after a 12-year journey, and discusses their implications. Images include the moon Triton, frozen lakes, and...

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  2. Grand Tour of Voyager 2: Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto (1999)

    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 26 minutes), £34.95

    The ‘grand tour’ of Voyager 2 - the space probe that started to explore the outer solar system beginning in August 1977, and led to the outer reaches of the solar system. These pictures of the larger...

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  3. Voyager (1982 Film, Video)

    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory proposed a mission in the 1960s to send spacecraft to the giant outer planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. In 1977 Voyagers 1 & 2 were launched. The leading...

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  4. As Surely As Columbus Saw America (1980 Video)

    Producer
    Ian Rosenbloom
    Subject
    Astronomy; Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 28 min.

    Describes how Newton’s laws of motion were based on Kepler’s work. Discusses their greatest classical application - the discovery of Neptune - and the use of celestial mechanics in current space...

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  5. Bully Boy Cartoons by Lancelot Speed (1914 Film)

    Producer
    Lancelot Speed
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Four short animated cartoons from the first series produced in Britain by the Neptune Company. The artist, who is seen in the film, is Lancelot Speed. The titles are BULLY BOY, GENERAL FRENCH’S...

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  6. Planets, The. Part 6: The Search for Planet X (1985 Video)

    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

    There are currently nine known planets in the solar system. Mathematics of planetary motion predicts a tenth, outer planet and observations of the orbits of Neptune support this theory. Looks at the...

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  7. From Earth to Miranda (1990 Video)

    Director
    Fisher Dilke
    Producer
    Judith Bunting
    Subject
    Astronomy; Space science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Follows the two Voyager spacecraft to Neptune, launched by NASA in 1977. Chronicles Voyager’s discoveries as it travels throughout the solar system. Features highlights from several earlier HORIZON...

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  8. Planets, The. Part 1: Children of the Sun (1985 Video)

    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

    Begins with an historical look at our knowledge of the solar system, from the ancient stone circles to the Greek view that the sun and planets rotated around the earth. Galileo and his opposing view is...

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  9. Planets, The (1999)

    Producer
    David McNab
    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 400 minutes), £34.99

    An account of space exploration and discovery from the first attempts to magnify the sky to space travel. Contains computer-created footage, actual footage shot from spacecraft and archive film. Narrated by...

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  10. S281 Videocassette 1 (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Cameron Balbirnie
    Subject
    Astronomy; Physics
    Distribution
    AVAILABLE ONLY AS PART OF COURSE MATERIALS, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 76 min., 1998 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    3: Studies the formation of protostars through computer modelling of galactic cloud collisions filmed at the University of Wales, Cardiff. Support video. 4: Explains the forces that are balanced within a...

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